[bonesmccoy]

Eisner was permitted a long long leash by Roy Disney... I am not entirely taken by his candor because Mr. Disney permitted the usurpation of his corporation by the liberal left.

Such weakness permitted the corporation to become the house of propaganda tools to manipulate the world view of the children of our nation.

I am pleased that Mr. Disney is taking the steps he is finally publicly stating.

They are long over due (about 20 years in my estimation).

[DustyMoment]

You make some valid points that are hard to argue. However, I believe that, as long as Frank Wells was alive, he kept Michael in tow. When Wells died in the helicopter crash, Eisner, effectively, was set adrift. That's about the time that Disney began its downward spiral.

I also think that the downward spiral occurred so gradually that Roy never really noticed it until it became so eggregiously obvious he couldn't deny it. By then, it was probably too late.

I have no doubt that there is some measure of culpability on Roy's part, however, we may never know what sort of wrangling went on behind the Disney Board's closed doors. Roy may have raised objections that, in the short-term, Eisner was able to overcome. In the long term, he probably added more liberals to the board to outvote Roy's objections. Reading both Roy Disney's and Stanley Gold's resignation letters, you get a distinct sense that the rancor both men expressed in their letters toward Eisner has been building for a very long time.

Like many, I hope that, after the dust settles, Disney will return to a family-friendly environment, will reduce or eliminate its liberal stance that opposes everything Walt stood for and will, again, become the "happiest place on earth". Before that occurs, I think there is a long, ugly internal battle ahead for Disney that could well take it totally outside the ability of the family to regain control.